Line fastening unit

Abstract

A line securing or fastening device having a base, a neck tapering upwardly from the base and a generally arcuate knob portion on top of the neck and two transverse wedge-shaped channel openings through the principal axis passing through the device and the channels separating the neck and knob into four segments or posts open at the top and adapted to be firmly secured to a structure such as a hull or deck so as to provide an easy means of adjustably securing lines, such as mooring lines and admitting of quick release from the fastening device.

I claim: 
     
       1. A line fastening unit comprising: a mounting base;   a neck portion connected to said base and rising therefrom with a gradual up-flaring taper;   a knob-like cap structure surmounting said neck portion and forming, at intersection of cap and neck, an angled groove, said cap and neck portions having two downward tapering wedge-shaped channel openings transverse to each other and through the principal axis of said cap and neck.   
     
     
       2. In the combination of claim 1 wherein said base is in a horizontal plane, the upper surface thereof chamfered at about a thirty degree angle from horizontal and faired at the junction with said neck portion, said neck rising from said base in an upwardly flaring truncated cone of about thirty degrees to intersect a plane conic surface forming an acute angle with the underside of said cap and wherein said wedge-shaped channel openings through said principal axis of cap and neck are upwardly flared at about ten degrees. 
     
     
       3. In the combination of claim 1 wherein said base, said neck portion, said knob-like cap are an integral unit. 
     
     
       4. A line fastening unit comprising: a mounting base having a regular conic form, a shallower conic bottom, and including apertured transverse means for attachment of said base to adjacent structure at point of use;   a neck portion connected to said base on the axis thereof and rising therefrom in a gradual upwardly expanding taper in a cone form; and   a knob-like cap structure surmounting said neck portion and forming at intersection of said cap and neck portions an angled perimeter groove, said cap and neck portions having two downward tapering wedge-shaped connecting channel openings transverse to each other and through the principal axis of said cap and neck, said channel openings bottoming above the juncture of said base and said neck portion.